 | | Report (issue) | | __ a-—™ UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA BULLETIN Y ol. XLI DECEMBER 1947 No. 9 G EOLOGY A N D M IN IN G...Engineer N evada State Bureau of Mines JNIVERSITY OF NEVADA BULLETIN Vol. XL I DECEMBER 1947 No. 9 GEOLOGY...Washoe Counties By D. O verton M ining Engineer Nevada State Bureau of Mines T heodore PR IC E F IF T...Highways_____ Production............................... Mining Districts— Buckskin (Smith Valley). Gardnerville...(Holbrook, Pine Nut)............................ Red Canyon (Silver Lake)......... PUBLISHED QUARTERLY BY THE |  | | Report (issue) | | MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE RENO 1° x 2° QUADRANGLE, NEVADA, with a comprehensive bibliography by Gary R...Figure 1. Location map of mining districts in the Reno 1° x 2° quadrangle, Nevada..........................Known production from mining districts in the Reno 1° x 2° quadrangle, Nevada..........................of mineral deposits in mining districts of the Reno 1° x 2° quadrangle, Nevada..........................prospects, and claims in the Reno 1° x 2° quadrangle, Nevada.......................................... 19 21 |  | | Report (issue) | | MINERALS OF NEVADA MINERALS OF NEVADA Peer Hen By CASTOR oan eGORY.C.oFER DOCK NEVADA AND BUREAU... UNIVERSITY Reno & Las Vegas OF NEVADA PRESS GEOLOGY Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Special...University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright © 2004 by University of Nevada Press Photographs...otherwise noted Map of Mining Districts and significant mineral occurrences of Nevada by Nevada Bureau of Mines...Cataloging-in-Publication Data Castor, Stephen B, Minerals of Nevada / Stephen B. Castor and Gregory C. Ferdock.— Ist | | | Report (issue) | | MINERALS OF NEVADA MINERALS OF NEVADA STEPHEN B. CASTOR and G R EGOR Y C . F E R D OC K l NEVADA BUREAU...association with the UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA PRESS Reno & Las Vegas Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Special...University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright© 2004 by Uni versity of Nevada Press Photographs...Districts and si gnificant minernl occurrences of Nevada by Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology All rights reserved...-Publ ication Dat,i Castor, Stephen B. Minerals of Nevada/ Stephen B. Castor and Gregory C. Ferdock.- rst |  | | Book (volume) | | Most specimen collecting is done in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift...and RR cuts and banks of Mason Cr.⎯fossils; d Coal City, on area mine dumps from sedimentary overburden⎯oval...dumps⎯Marcasite, Pyrite. HANCOCK COUNTY DALLAS CITY: on the Dallas Cr. (see map next page) ⎯geodes (lined... Illinois Niota Dewdrop Diamond Geode Location Dallas City Geode Location WARSAW, area rd. cuts, pits quarries...Iowa, being most typical and best know around Iowa City. ADAIR COUNTY ORIENT, 5 mi. N and E in washes and |  | | Book (volume) | | Most specimen collecting is done in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift...and RR cuts and banks of Mason Cr.⎯fossils; d Coal City, on area mine dumps from sedimentary overburden⎯oval...dumps⎯Marcasite, Pyrite. HANCOCK COUNTY DALLAS CITY: on the Dallas Cr. (see map next page) ⎯geodes (lined... Illinois Niota Dewdrop Diamond Geode Location Dallas City Geode Location WARSAW, area rd. cuts, pits quarries...Iowa, being most typical and best know around Iowa City. ADAIR COUNTY ORIENT, 5 mi. N and E in washes and |  | | Book (volume) | | pitsagate (banded, moss), chalcedony, chert, flint, moss opal, agatized and opalized wood. OMAHA, W to the Platte...Lyman-Ritchie gravel pit to SWagate. FURNAS COUNTY BEAVER CITY, red and green material in the Niobrara chalk depositchert...gravelsagate, chalcedony, jasper, petrified wood. STEELE CITY, area gravel pits, quarries, and stream gravelsagate...dumpfluorescent moss opal nodules (in limestone coated with white Calcite), opal arrowheads. BAYARD: ...mi., in rd. cut on Hwy. 87, gemmypetrified wood (opal replacement, fluorescent); S, in Scottsbluff |  | | Book | | Petrified Wood 131 Characteristics of Agates; Opal, Queen of the Gems; Petrified Wood; Commonly Occurring...Arkansas Arizona California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana...Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North...Family Gemstones The Various Names and Forms of Agate Opal and Its Varieties Recommendations for Use of Polishing...quartzite, rock crystal, amethyst, chrysoprase, opal, etc.), serpentine, and steatite (massive talc) |  | | Journal (issue) | | HEALD Rock'iounds Take Warning! . . . Salt Lake City, Utah Desert: Recent issues of Desert have carried...Nevills Plaque is Dedicated 5 EXPLORATION Glen Canyon Voyage . . . . . . . . By RANDALL HENDERSON TRUE... Cliff Home of the Ancients By WELDON F. HEALD MINING Current news of desert mines PHOTOGRAPHY Picture...Nevills. The Nevills plaque will remain on the canyon wall just beneath Navajo bridge over the Colorado...JUAN RIVER • GREEN RIVER COLORADO RIVER • GRAND CANYON SALMON RIVER • SNAKE RIVER BY THE RIVER THEY LOVED |  | | Report (issue) | | resource areas in the Basin and Range Province of Nevada by George Wong Open-File Report 83-721 This...Appendix A **~""~~"* "* *** *"* * » Table Table 1. District descriptions . .-.-.-. . -.-. . . . .-. .-. <...resource areas in the Basin and Range Province of Nevada By George Wong The purpose of this map is to identify...Province. These areas include past and present mining and prospecting localities as well as areas of...map are not legal mining district boundaries and may include more than one district as well as adjacent |  | | Journal (issue) | | mobilehome, anywhere — beach, mountain or desert, city or suburb, Arizona or Washington — move whenever...Volume 22 JULY. 1959 Number 7 COVER: Song of the Canyon By R. BROWNELL McGREW 4 DESERT LIVING: Apple Valley...Rattlesnake" By CHARLES E. SHELTON 10 MINING: The Mine at Sulphur, Nevada By NELL MURBARGER 13 TRAVEL: Introducing...Photo Hints: 12 Desert Quiz: 27 Desert Primer: 17 Mining News: 29 Amateur Gem Cutter: 30 Hard Rock Shorty:...as R. Brownell McGrew's painting, "Song of the Canyon," is, it is no more vivid than the isolated canyons |  | | Book | | stumble over a valuable nugget and stake your own mining claim? Indeed it to is, and author book Jay...prospecting, he points out, is in abandoned mining districts, where valuable mineral ores are present...RANSOM 1875-1948 An to the Eastern '‘Schoolmarm” Mining Camps of the Old West I I a s I \ h K... CONTENTS Preface ix PART I 1 Introduction to Mining and Mineralogy 2 Preparation for Mineral Collecting...purposes, or for cabinet display. Although the basic mining and underground geology were known some two to |  | | Report (issue) | | mineralization to caldera subsidence in the Creede district, San Juan Mountains, Colorado, by Thomas A. Steven...·_________________ _ 9. Alinement of mining districts in north-central Nevada, by Ralph J." Roberts ____________...assemblage of a pyrometasomatic deposit near Tonopah, Nevada, by R: A. Gulbrandsen and D. G. Gielow_ 11. Sedimentary...- _-13. Tectonic setting of the Coeur d'Alene district, Idaho, by Robert E. Wallace, Allan B. Griggs...__________ _ 14. Bleaching in the Coeur d'Alene district,( Idaho, by P. L. Weis ______________________ |
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